Announcing success with the Kitlope
You’ve helped us to permanently end commercial trophy hunting in the spectacular Kitlope Conservancy.
We did it!
We have now raised the funds required to buy the Kitlope hunting tenure. You’ve helped us to permanently end commercial trophy hunting in the spectacular Kitlope Conservancy and surrounding area. We owe a huge thanks to you, all of our donors, and everyone who has helped us to raise the $650,000 required.
Over the weekend conservation photographers Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier also lent their voices, and that of their organization SeaLegacy. With their help, we crossed the line at speed. We received hundreds of donations from throughout BC, across the United States and around the world with support coming from Australia, Austria, Germany, India, Sweden, the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates!
This success is another step towards our overall goal – to buy all remaining commercial trophy hunting rights throughout the Great Bear Rainforest. Buying these rights will permanently end trophy hunting by non-residents in this vast coastal region.
With a new government set to be in place, we will now focus on protecting BC’s wolves from recreational hunting, trapping and misguided wolf culls.
Combined these two strategies are designed to protect the habitat and lives of all coastal carnivores, especially wolves, one of BC’s most persecuted animals.
Whether you donated, shared a post, attended an event or simply expressed your encouragement, please join us in celebrating this win and stick with us as we continue our efforts to protect all of BC’s coastal carnivores.
With thanks from all at Raincoast.
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Raincoast’s in-house scientists, collaborating graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors make us unique among conservation groups. We work with First Nations, academic institutions, government, and other NGOs to build support and inform decisions that protect aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and the wildlife that depend on them. We conduct ethically applied, process-oriented, and hypothesis-driven research that has immediate and relevant utility for conservation deliberations and the collective body of scientific knowledge.
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